Cigar-tip cutter.



G. C. SNIDER.

CIGAR TIP CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24. 1915.

1,179,144. Patented Apr. 11, 1916;

2 SHEETS-SHEET 11 Wihwoozo I PH co., WASHINGTON D c GEORGE C. SNIDER, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

CIGAR-TIP CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 191 6.

Application filed May 24, 1915. Serial No. 30,014.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE C. SNIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Tip Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to cigar-tip cutters; and it contemplates the provision of a cigar-tip cutter embodying such a construction and relative arrangement of parts that contact between the cigar and the cutting means is precluded and in that way transmission of disease germs from the cigar of one person to the cigar of another person is effectually prevented.

The invention also contemplates the employment of insulating means that is fed step by step incidental to the use of the device with the result that a fresh and clean surface is presented to every cigar that is offered to be out.

Other advantageous features of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device constituting the best practical embodiment of my invention that I have as yet devised. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section taken in a plane at a right angle to Fig. 1. Fig. 3

is a full vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking forwardly. Fig. 4 is a detail vertical section takenin a plane parallelto that of Fig. 2 and showing the step by step take-up mechanism. Fig. 5 is a detail horizontal section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view showing the manner in which the rolls forholding the strips of paper or insulating material are held under tension.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The casing of my device is preferably, though not necessarily, of wood, and is provided in its front wall with a flared opening 2 for the insertion of the tip-ends of cigars, and is also provided in one of its side walls with a vertical opening 3 for the play of the operating lever 4 hereinafter specifically described. As appears in Fig. 3 and in Figs. 2 and 4, the said lever 4 is ful crulned at 5 on and is arranged parallel to the front wall of the casing, which is designated by 1. It will also be noticed that the inner arm of the lever 4 is connected to a retractile spring 6, while the outer arm of the lever extends beyond the casing wall for convenient manipulation by the party who desires to use the device.

Fulcrumecl at 7 and arranged against one of the sidewalls of the casing is a lever 8. This lever is provided with a beveled head 9 that rests in the path of the outer arm of lever 4, and the lower arm of said lever 8' is connected at 10 to a horizontallymovable slide 11, guided in the said side wall of the casing. A retractile spring 12,

Figs. 4 and 5, connected with the casing.

wall and the slide 11, tends to return the slide '11 to and yieldingly retain the same in the position shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

Fixed in the casing and against the front wall thereof is'a blade 13, and rectilinearlymovable in the casing in the same plane as the fixedcutting blade 13 is a movable cutting blade 14. This blade 14 is connected at 15 to the outer arm of the lever 4, and hence it will be manifest that downward movement of the said arm will be attended by downward movement of the cutting blade 14; also, that when the lever 4 is relieved of pressure, the spring 6 will operate to re" turn bothlever and cutting blade to their normal positions.

Extending in front of the blade 13 and having a bight that receives the cutting edge of said blade is a strip 17, of oiled or waxed paper or any other material suitable to the purpose of my invention, and simi larly arranged with reference to the movable cutting blade 14 is a corresponding strip 18. These strips 17 and 18 are given off by rolls 19 and 20, respectively; each of the said rolls being loosely mounted on a fixed journal 21 and being interposed between an abutment 22 on the journal and an expansion spring 23 which operates to press against and hold the roll under tension and in that way prevents too free feed of a strip from the roll. The abutment 22 in each case is detachably connected to the journal by ascrew 24, this to permit of the ready.

placing of a fresh roll on the journal when a preceding roll is depleted of paper.

The strips 17 and 18 are taken up on rolls 30 and 31 respectively; the said rolls being loosely mounted on journals 32 a d. bei g" preferably provided with finger pieces 33. It will also be noticed by reference to Fig. & that each roll is provided with a ratchet wheel 34, fixed thereto, and that pawls 35 backed by springs 36 are arranged to co operate with said wheels 3d and thereby prevent retrograde rotation of the rolls. For the purpose of rotating the rolls 30 and 31 synchronously in the proper direction to take up the strips 17 and 18, the slide 11 is equipped with spring-pressed dogs 10, best shown in Fig. 1. From this it follows that when the slide 11 is drawn backwardly by the contraction of the spring 12, the dogs a0 cooperating with the ratchet wheels 34.- will rotate the rolls 30 and 31 sufficiently far to draw into the casing the surfaces of insulating material previously presented to a cigar so that when another cigar is in serted in the opening 2 fresh and clean surfaces of insulating material will be offered to the last-named cigar. The described-takingup of the strips 17 and 18 occurs incidental to the upward movement of the movable cutting blade lt; the downward. and operating movement ofthe said blade 14. taking place while the strips 17 and 18 are at rest. This is advantageous since it contributes materially to the thoroughness with which the strips 17 and 18 isolate a cigar from the cutting means or blades.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that by the operation of my novel device, a cigar can be quickly and easily cut to remove its tip, and that during the operation no part of the cutting mechanism contacts with the cigar. lChis tends to prevent the transmission of disease germs from one cigar to a following cigar, and the transmission of such germs is further precluded by the fact that after the cutting of the tip of each cigar, the strips are moved so as to present entirely fresh surfaces to the next cigar that is positioned to be out.

It will be further gathered from the foregoing that an important feature of my invention resides in the fact that the cigar-tip is out without cutting or mutilation of either of the strips 17 and 18, and that consequently the cutting does not interfere with the isolating capacity of the strips, and does not leave any objectionable paper particles or the like on the cut cigars.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Pat ent, is:

1. In a sanitary cigar tip cutter, the combination of a casing having an opening in one of its walls for the insertion of a cigar tip, a cutting blade arranged in said casing opposite said opening, a movable cutting blade arranged in alinement to the firstnamed blade and also arranged opposite said opening, suitably-supported strips of isolatmg material passed in front of the blades and having bights that extend over and cover the opposed edges of the blades, means for taking up said strips, and means for actuating the take-up means synchronously with the operation of the movable cutting blade.

2. In a sanitary cigar tip cutter, the combination. of a casing having an opening in one of its walls for the insertion of a cigar tip, a cutting blade arranged in said casing opposite said opening, a movable cutting blade alined with the first-named blade and also arranged opposite said opening, rolls mounted in the casing and having ratchet wheels fixed thereto, spring-pressed pawls arranged to cooperate with said wheels to prevent retrograde rotation of the rolls, other rolls mounted in the casing and disposed above and below the first-named rolls, strips of isolating material supported on the second-named rolls and passed in front of the blades and over the opposed edges of the blades and to the first-named rolls on which they are taken up, a horizontally-movable slide mounted in the casing and having spring-pressed dogs arranged to act against the ratchet wheels of the first-named rolls, a lever mounted in the casing and having a lower arm connected with said slide and an upper arm on which is a beveled head, a lever mounted in the casing and connected with the movable cutting blade and arranged to co-o'perate with the beveled head of the first-named lever to move the slide in one direction, means for moving the slide in the opposite direction, and means for moving the second-named lever back to its normal position.

8. A sanitary cigar tip cutter, comprising a movable cutting blade, a blade arranged in alinement with the movable blade, strips of isolating material formed into loops the bights of which rest over and cover the edges of said blades, means for operating the movable cutting blade, and means for moving the strips over the edges of the blades incidental to the operation of the movable cutting blade.

41. A sanitary cigar tip cutter, comprising a movable cutting blade, a strip of isolating material formed into a loop the bight of which extends over and covers and perma nently contacts with the edge of the cutting blade and is movable by and with said blade, means for operating the cutting blade, and means for taking up the strip.

5. A sanitary cigar tip cutter, comprising a movable-cutting blade, a strip of isolating material formed into a loop the bight of which extends over and covers and permanently contacts with the edge of the cutting blade, and is movable by and with said blade and means for operating the cutting blade.

6. A sanitary cigar tip cutter, comprising a movable-cutting blade, a blade arranged in alinement with the movable blade, strips of In testimony whereof I have hereunto set isolating material formed into loops the bights 12f which rest over and cover the nesses.

ed es 0 said blades the strips complementaFy t0 the movable blade being movable GEORGE SNIDER' with said blade, means tor operatingv the lVitnesses:

movable cutting blade, and means for mov- SOL. BLooM,

ing the strips over the edges of the blades. M. MACKINNON.

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